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Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament
RecommendedTui Hirv (soprano) & Rainer Vilu (baritone)
Latvian Radio Choir, Vox Clamantis, Riga Sinfonietta, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste
Adam's Lament serves as a summary of Pärt's evolution since he abandoned Modernist tendencies...The Radio Choir and Vox Clamantis affectingly convey anguished hopes for redemption while maintaining... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Disc of the month
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Grammy Awards, 56th Awards (2013), Best Choral Performance
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Arvo Pärt: The Deer’s Cry
Mari Poll (violin), Johanna Vahermägi (viola), Heikko Remmel, Taavo Remmel (double basses), Robert Staak (lute), Toomas Vavilov (clarinet), Susanne Doll (organ)
Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve
The level of artistry necessary to achieve the kind of living, breathing performance given here by the Estonian choir Vox Clamantis is a rarity…conductor Jaan-Eik Tulve [is able] to infuse the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Choral
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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. — More…
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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Secret History - Music by Josquin and Victoria John Potter (vocals), Anna Maria Friman (vocals), Ariel Abramovich (vihuela), Jacob Heringman (vihuela), Lee Santana (vihuela), Hille Perl (viola da gamba)
[Potter’s] approach is varied…In the Gloria of the Mass and elsewhere [he[] artfully switches between parts as he goes along so as to produce an appealing continuous vocal line. The instrumentalists... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Pärt: Tractus
Maria Listra: (soprano) (L'Abbe Agathon), Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste
Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste and ECM’s producer Manfred Eicher are Pärt ’s long-term collaborators, and they make an utterly assured contribution to this concentrated retrospective of the composer’s... — More…
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Trio Mediaeval defend the corner for beautiful simplicity in this album — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Officium Novum: Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble
Jan Garbarek (soprano & tenor saxophones)
The Hilliard Ensemble (David James, countertenor, Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor, Steven Harrold, Gordon Jones, baritone)
Over the immanent, limpid voices Garbarek improvises equally immaculate counter-melodies. His contributions tend to be somewhat predictable, more decoration than improvisation in the fullest... — More…
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L’Aurore is far greater than the sum of its parts...The album takes its name from the first movement of Ysaÿe’s fifth solo sonata, a work dedicated to his friend and former pupil Mathieu Crickboom.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Mansurian: Requiem, for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and string orchestra
RecommendedAnja Petersen (soprano), Andrew Redmond (bass)
RIAS Chamber Choir Berlin, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Liebreich
Mansurian’s sound-world is notably clean: time and again he juxtaposes orchestral unisons and stark instrumental effects with plainchant, yet burnished splendour is the result. Throughout the... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Contemporary Classical Composition
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International Classical Music Awards, 2018, Winner - Contemporary
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Officium A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone.
Jan Garbarek (saxophone)
Hilliard Ensemble
no matter how one views so-called crossover...or the relative unwisdom of sticking to rigid musical boundaries, the evidence remains conclusive: ''Officium'' successfully transcends any limitations... — More…
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